Are you an experienced sales and business development professional looking to drive profitable growth, gain market share, and build a strong future pipeline within our Contractors & Installers division?
As a global leader in electrical wholesale, Rexel distributes advanced electrical and energy-efficient products worldwide. We deliver smart, sustainable solutions engineered to enhance comfort, safety, and security across residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.
Based within our Leeds Cluster, you’ll be responsible for developing and winning new business into our branches, while strengthening existing relationships to create long-term, value-added partnerships across the Contractors & Installers customer base.
The Benefits of a Career with Rexel:
- Company Car Scheme
- Bonuses: Performance Related Bonus Scheme
- Time Off: 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays, increasing throughout the years too!)
- You can also buy and sell holiday each year
- Enhanced parental leave
- Support & Development: Extensive learning opportunities from day one.
- Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance/Free virtual GP service, Healthy Mind Champions, and more!
- Perks: Contributory pension scheme and life assurance, Staff discounts, exclusive holiday offers and free financial support and education
As a Business Development Manager at Rexel, you will drive profitable growth, gaining market share and creating future pipeline opportunities, within specific segment or product specialism.
This role is pivotal in driving sales, collaborating with branch based teams and creating an exceptional customer relationship and service.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Roadmap: Use data driven insights and tools to create a plan to increase market share (within a defined geography/segment/specialist product group) identifying potential and long-term growth opportunities through new offerings, markets, or revenue streams.
- Pipeline Management: Build and maintain a pipeline of customer partnerships
- Customer Partnerships: Create partnerships and strategic relationships with customer (brand/business) for long term future opportunity.
- Value Proposition Development: Create tailored solutions leveraging preferred suppliers to drive innovation and profitability.
- Pricing and Profitability: Govern regional pricing, margins, and contract profitability.
- Market Agility: Adapt strategies based on market and segment changes for long term future growth.
- Multichannel Growth: Promote multichannel adoption to innovate customer propositions.
- Customer Experience: Ensure exceptional customer experience and OTIF through collaboration with internal end to end experts to drive new business and successful implementation.
- Team Development: Upskill internal teams, ensuring clear account ownership and regular reviews to achieve growth targets.
At Rexel, we prioritise hiring individuals based on behaviours and potential, rather than requiring specific formal qualifications for roles, the behaviours that will set you up for success as a Business Development Manager include:
- COLLABORATION – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- HOLDS ACCOUNTABILTY – holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
- CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIP – Creating new customer partnerships with multi dimensional relationships for strategic insight for future opportunity
- DRIVES RESULTS - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
- INFLUENCES- using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others
- BUILDS NETWORKS - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organisation
What we are looking for:
- Commercial expertise (margin, P&L, cost to serve)
- Influencing and Negotiation skills
- Experience within a business development role with proven results.
- Able to make data driven decisions to drive strategic plans and growth opportunities.
- Strong stakeholder management experience with the ability to collaborate cross functionally.
- Proven sales experience with the ability to prospect, qualify and close new business.
- Extensive knowledge of sales processes and techniques.
At Rexel UK, we’re all about welcoming people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives because we know that diversity drives fresh ideas and great results.
By coming together as one team, we’re building a high-performance culture that not only drives success but also creates real value for our customers and communities.
Creating an environment where individuality is celebrated and creativity flourishes, we're making sure everyone feels supported and confident to be their best.
Skills Required
- Commercial expertise, including margin, P&L, and cost-to-serve management
- Influencing and negotiation skills
- Business development experience with proven results
- Ability to make data-driven decisions and develop strategic growth plans
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration experience
- Proven sales experience, including prospecting, qualifying, and closing new business
- Extensive knowledge of sales processes and techniques
What We Do
Rexel, worldwide expert in the professional multichannel distribution of electrical products and services for the energy world, addresses three main markets - residential, commercial, and industrial. The Group supports its customers to be at their best in running their business, by providing a broad range of sustainable and innovative products, services, and solutions in the field of technical supply, automation, and energy management. Rexel operates through a network of over 1,900 branches in 19 countries, with more than 27,000 employees. The Group’s sales were €19.2 billion in 2023. Over the past five years, Rexel has proven its ability to structurally outperform the growing and increasingly attractive electrical distribution market. The demand in green energy and energy efficiency has boosted the Group’s businesses. On February 11, 2021, Rexel presented its mid-term ambitions. The Group’s strategy relies on a growth, value-creation and ESG ambition approach, via several strategic initiatives: - Accelerating growth through “More Customers, More SKUs, More Digital” - Improving operational and financial performance, in particular through digital - A balanced capital allocation around return to shareholders and investment in future growth. As an example, Rexel seizes any external growth opportunity in order to strengthen its position in certain geographies such as the United States or to add adjacent skills. ESG targets for 2030: - A 35% reduction in CO2 emissions of its operations (scopes 1&2) compared to 2016 - A 45% reduction in CO2 emissions from the use of products sold (scope 3) compared to 2016. 2023 sales: €19.2 billion 19 countries 1,900 branches 27,000 employees
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